Quotes About Consumption

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.

The hunger for the world is bigger than the world itself and no dinner of mutton cutlets and okra is going to feed it.

By seeing this food as medicine, I will consume it without attachment or complaint, Not to increase my arrogance, strength, or good looks, But solely to sustain my life.

Has the industry done to music what McDonald's has done to eating?

Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.

American Christians spend more on dieting than on world missions.5 We spend more curing our overconsumption than we do feeding the physically and spiritually hungry of the world.

While we sit in our air-conditioned homes and eat, drink and make merry like cattle in a feedlot without the slightest thought about the consequences of our consumption of water, food and energy, we only hasten the destruction -in the long term- of our kind.

Our possessions possess us. We were not born with possessions, but acquired them later.

It makes no sense to me at all to give away music for free. The very fact that we have to do that cheapens the music. And there's a huge effect to that of music not playing such a big part in peoples' lives anymore.

I don't know really, apart from Barnes & Noble, where you buy CDs anymore.

I read a couple of books a week. About 80 percent of what I read is contemporary literature for adults. The other 20 percent is made up of non-fiction and children's books.

I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.

Well that's the point: People don't normally take away things from films anymore. You go and see a $100 million film, half an hour later, your biggest concern is what are you going to be eating.

At barbecues, people just like to eat a lot of meat; it's extraordinary. They eat far more than they normally would at a dinner party.

When I'm eating I try to make sure I can breathe through my nose the entire time. If I have to breathe through my mouth, there's no way I'm eating or swallowing.

I feel humiliated that I live in a country that demands more already. Why do we cling to the notion that not only must we maintain the current level of consumption, but that it must continue to grow by an exponential factor of 2 to 7 percent every year?

I don't fetishize objects.

For years, I've felt an obligation to harvest an animal, since all my life I've so mindlessly consumed them. But that was from the safety of my desk.

After coming from a major label, I realized the entire business has been decimated, and you can't look to labels to try to figure it out because they don't even use the technology, and they're oblivious to how people consume music these days.

I don't think I have an obsession, however I do eat chocolate every day.

The big problem in our society is the obsession with maximisation.

It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet.

American's capacity for real estate improvement; build yourself a house, grow fat in it, and die.

Mato de hambre al amor, para que devore lo que encuentre.